person
also known as John Gordon
Literary scholar whose Finnegans Wake: A Plot Summary Bob reads from to close the session. Though Gordon "aspires to be reductive," his opening chapter on mimesis gives Bob exactly the frame he wants: Joyce as a lifelong "mimic in the root sense," rendering the objective world through an individual consciousness — a description Bob turns into his own thesis that the Android Meme "mimes us."
Across the dialogues
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Enters at the close as Bob's reductive foil turned ally — his plot-summary account of Joyce as lifelong mimic gives the episode its bridge from the Wake to the Android Meme that "mimes us"
Reading Gordon's plot-summary, Bob lifts the account of Joyce as root-sense mimic — turning the outward/inward paradox of mimesis into his own figure for the Android Meme miming human history back at us.
"Joyce remained a mimic in the root sense of the word."